eager - Story 37783 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The advertisement shimmered on his laptop screen. His heart beat an accelerated rhythm as he read the description. He felt a sudden, forceful tightening in his chest, a sensation that made him want to bolt from his chair and run. He couldn’t contain his excitement.

He grabbed his phone and started composing a text message. He was going to call every single family member, all of them. He needed to coordinate a visit, immediately. He knew they’d all want to see it, to experience the nostalgia he was feeling.

He was practically vibrating with anticipation as he envisioned walking through the front door again, breathing in the scent of the home he remembered.

Emotion: eager

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 2.98 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.02

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion eager. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 eager stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the eager emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the eager vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.659
`excitedly`	0.436
`!`	0.389
`!"`	0.386
`ecstatic`	0.383

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.816
`ness`	-0.441
`😞`	-0.387
`L`	-0.379
`P`	-0.376